In Nov. alone, 15 students at Mason High School in Mason, OH were hospitalized for suicidal ideation.
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As @wyattsheepie noted, if these were COVID-19 hospitalizations, it would make front page, national news.
Priority #1 should be protecting kids. https://www.journal-news.com/news/leaders-concerned-after-more-than-a-dozen-mason-students-recently-hospitalized-for-suicidal-thoughts/6BQBAF6F55BMNIE37AMPWBTTFU/
15
As @wyattsheepie noted, if these were COVID-19 hospitalizations, it would make front page, national news.
Priority #1 should be protecting kids. https://www.journal-news.com/news/leaders-concerned-after-more-than-a-dozen-mason-students-recently-hospitalized-for-suicidal-thoughts/6BQBAF6F55BMNIE37AMPWBTTFU/
Let's talk about known risk factors for suicide in kids.
& then let's be honest about the scope & scale of what we have taken from them.
Denying this is happening or blaming parents is not the answer.
The answer is giving kids their lives back.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00540/full
& then let's be honest about the scope & scale of what we have taken from them.
Denying this is happening or blaming parents is not the answer.
The answer is giving kids their lives back.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00540/full
We are the grown-ups--the ones tasked w/ keeping kids safe & supporting their growth, just like our parents did for us.
They depend on us.
And we are failing them.
The science is clear & there is no longer a place for irrational fear in this conversation.
None.
They depend on us.
And we are failing them.
The science is clear & there is no longer a place for irrational fear in this conversation.
None.